Yet without internal grace, right use of faculties is morally impossible

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Still: mind and will are sin-corrupted.

Without inward grace lighting the mind and bending the will, right use cannot happen.

Obeying the outward call needs that inward help.

Without it, obedience is morally impossible because of inherent vice.

Latin

XX. Agnoscunt autem istas naturales hominis facultates, nempe mentem atque voluntatem, ita peccato corruptas & vitiatas esse, ut nisi accedat interna quaedam Dei gratia, quae mentem illuminet & voluntatem flectat, contingere non possit ut homo bene utatur suis illis facultatibus, & pareat atque obsequatur Deo vocanti & invitanti ad gratiae suae extrinsecus oblatae participationem; quod illi propter vitium inhaerens, absque interna ejusmodi gratia moraliter impossibile est.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

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